Chapter 7 - Youth and Sport

Question 1

socialization in youth sport

Answer 1

the process of learning and adapting to a given social system and by which a society preservers its norms and perpetuates itself

Question 2

focus of socialization in youth sports

Answer 2

how children are socialized both into and through sport as an active and ongoing process connecting personal experience and social & historical structures

Question 3

prolympism

Answer 3

the convergence of two former separate elite sports systems as the dominant modern youth sport system

Question 4

mode of athlete production

Answer 4

pyramid of athlete development where children learn to Labour and produce values. becoming enmeshed into this system further internalizes values

Question 5

ideology of winning at all costs

Answer 5

concerns about ethical issues / costs of focusing on competition and elite development

Question 6

demands of prolympism and child labour

Answer 6

increase amounts of resources and copious amounts of time from child labourer

Question 7

ideology of specialization

Answer 7

sport specific and positional.

Question 8

demands of prolympism an specialized labour

Answer 8

pressures to develop specialized athletes through sports academies and private clubs as young as 5yrs.

Question 9

concept of parental interference and increasing parental pressure

Answer 9

with prolympism sport increasing in price, parents are regarding it as an “investment” to develop cultural, economic and social capital in sport and beyond

Question 10

concept of coaching and power relation concerns

Answer 10

National coaching certification program established impacts on structure of youth sport and improvement in quality and consistency of coaching

Question 11

case of maple leaf gardens

Answer 11

1. employees of the maple leaf gardens ran pedophile ring luring dozen of young boys into the gardens where they were sexually assaulted
2. a victim of the case came forward in 1997 blowing the lid off the scandal , later committing suicide.

Question 12

case of graham james

Answer 12

1. former junior hockey coach for Moose Jaw
2. convicted of more than 350 incidents of sexual abuse involving at least 2 former players, served 3.5 yrs in prison
3. parents trusted the coach with their children telling them to do everything that its told and so players said nothing

Question 13

case of theoren Fleury

Answer 13

1. former NHL player, abused by graham James
2. wrote a novel about his experience
3. James was sentenced to 7 yrs in prison

Question 14

sexual harassment

Answer 14

unwelcome sexual advances or attention, requests for sexual favours, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature

Question 15

sexual assault

Answer 15

intentional application of force without consent that violates sexual integrity of the victim